Utility rack



Jan. 17, 1939. c. s. HEDQUls-r ET AL.- I 2,144,534

UTILITY RACK Filed OCT.. 18, 1937 7 |||||..|\l|\\. 0l. f mm 7 mw G 'IF Em G 3 wm m A L U G v V f l E ER m M 1mm m B W L Il E M mm m m \w y G P WZN' VENTQRS? d TZ'WENEX y Patented Jan. 17, 1939 UNITED; :;STEAT EsPATENT orFlce f y, 2,144,534 A f 1 1j y?:f UTILITY1mois` n Carl S.Hedquist, George A. Johnson, and Eric A. Malmberg, Minneapolis,Application October 18, 1937, Serial No. 169,572

2 Claims.

Our invention relates to utility racks which may also be aptlydesignated as portable holders arranged to be suspended or fastened on awall, the panel of a pantry door or any other convensaid sectionsdesignated 6A, 1A, 8A and 9A to engage slidably in the correspondingchannels 6, l, 8 and 9 extending rigidly from the other end wall, asbest shown in Fig. 1.

ient place within easy reach as in a kitchen. In each of the rearflanges 5C, near their up- 5 The main object of our invention is toprovide per ends is provided a suitable aperture l2, for a simplyconstructed, light weight, highly efscrews (not shown) to hang or fastenthe device cient and inexpensive holder for containers of on an;7vertical surface such as a wall or door spices, condiments,v extractsand other ingredients panel, designated Ill in Fig. 2.

10 such as used dailyV by housewives, a particular All the rails are ofcourse parallel to each other, 10 feature of this device being its lightweight and and each is flat vertically, the rear lower rail telescopicconstruction such that it may be set v'I--lA comprising a support railand made narto certain length to hold a predetermined number rower thanthe lower front rail 8--8A so that its of containers, al1 as hereinafterfully set forth top edge is in lower plane than the top edge of l5 andillustrated in the accompanying drawing, in said rail 8-8A. On saidsupport rail may be l5 whichzplaced any predetermined number ofcontainers Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of our im- Il, in a row,such containers being slipped downproved utility rack. wardly betweenthe upper rails, and all resting on Fig. 2 is a direct iront View of thedevice holdthe top edge of the rail '1 -1A as indicated by ing fivecontainers of uniform size and one of dotted lines in Fig. 3.

which is shown partly withdrawn from its seated The containers will ofcourse be automatically position. alined in the rack, in a neatappearing row, as

Fig. 3 is an enlarged scale sectional elevation shown in Fig. 2, thecontent designations of the as on line 3-3 in Fig. 2, looking towardVone end containers disclosed in clear view, as in the space of thedevice, and Fig. 4 lis a top view of the between the upper and lowerfront rails. The 25 right hand end of the utility rack. front lower railhaving its top edge at an elevation Referring to the drawing byreference numerhigher than the top edge 0f the 51111100145 rail als,like parts being designated by corresponding l1.A, the former serves asa guard and alines the characters in the severalv figures; our devicefront lower parts of the containers. If the device comprises preferablytwo horizontally registering, is set to snugly hold five containers, asshown, 30 upright, sheet metal end walls 5- of channel shape or anyother number, any one of the containers in cross section, each having ahorizontal bottom may be easily removed by pushing its bottom end edge5A, a front flange 5B shorter than the rear upwardly, or by contactingthe front part of it ange 5C and the upper edge of each end wall overrail 9-9A and bearing upwardly.

cut in an angular line as 5D from the top of the Our utility rack, asabove described, provides 35 front flange to the top of the rear flange.a useful holder for uniformly sized containers The end walls are rigidlybut adjustably conand is easily set by telescoping it to desired sizenected in variously spaced relation to each other for a predeterminednumber of containers. by a number of telescopically constructed rails,It is obvious that the rails need not necessarily shown four in numberand designated 6, 1, 8 and be of sheet metal. They may comprise two par-4o 9, of which 6 is an upper rear rail connecting the allel wires andtheir respective free ends each upper rear end parts of the end walls. 1is a. formed with a loop slidably engaging the other lower rear rail,inward of the rear edge of the Wire. Other modifications mai7 be madeWithdevice, 8 is a lower front rail connecting the out departing fromthe scope and spirit'of our iront lower corners of the end walls and 9is an invention. 4,5

upper front rail but in a plane lower than the We claim: rear upper rail6. 1. A utility rack of the class described com-l Eaen rail ispreferably made of two sheet metal prising a pair of upright.horizontally spaced end telescopic sections, one section of channelshape Walls, a number of telescopic parallel rails con- Y in crosssection and the other rail section a sheet neting Said end Walls inadjustable felation to 50 metal fiat rail doubled at its edgeslongitudinally, each other to provide a rack of predetermined forstrength, and of a size to be guided slidably length, said telescopicrails located two at the in the corresponding channel section of therail. front in vertically spaced and fixed parallel rela- The smallerrail sections may all extend rigidly tion, one at the rear and upperpart of the rack,

from one end wall and parallel to each other, and a lower inside railparallel to the lower 55 y means for containers inserted downwardly inthe rack, said lower front rail xed in a parallel position relative tothe support rail but its upper edge in higher plane than the top edge ofthe support rail, for the purpose set forth.

2. A utility rack of the class described coml rear upper rail connectingcorresponding parts prising a pair of upright, horizontally spaced endWalls, a,- numherof' telescopic; panallel rzailsecpnnecting saidend-walls in adjustable. relation to each other, to provide a rack ofpredetermined length, said telescopic rails located twoat thai; i Yfront in vertically spaced parallel relationpneat; the rear and upperpart of the rack, and a l'ower inside rail parallel to the lower frontrail but spaced forward from the rear edge of the rack, the latter railcomprising support means for containers inserted downwardly in the rack,said end walls comprising two identical vertically disposed channels,said front rails ofthe device con-V nectingvthe front flanges of saidchannels, the

of the rear flanges and the support rail connectipgd-hetloweremgpartsoffthegwepbs. of the channelsf as shown.' and described.

CARL S. I-IEDQUIST. GEORGE A. JOHNSON. ERIC A. MALMBERG.

